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On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:57:22 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:

> I think another approach is to add [ and ] around one letter of what
> you're filtering for, but that'd require modifying the string, and
> shares one issue with "grep -v grep": it doesn't work as intended if the
> name you are grepping for is grep.

I'll take a chance I'm somehow looking for a running grep process.